Buchmann Gallery is dedicated to the advocacy of sculpture in its diverse forms of expression and regularly realizes monumental and site-specific projects by its artists in public spaces. This ranges from initial project contact through assistance with technical and logistical challenges to the completed on-site installation. The following selection documents a variety of large-scale sculptures and site-specific works, some of which were realized in direct collaboration with the gallery.
It is, it isn’t, 2024
Installation view
Stainless steel
One Bangkok, the largest holistically integrated district in the heart of Bangkok, unveils the major permanent public sculpture It is, It isn’t by Tony Cragg.
The bundling-up and superimposition of a number of elliptical columns give the sculpture It Is, It Isn’t an emotive and dramatic form that stands in contrast to its geometric and rational structure.
The sculpture reflects recurring themes in Cragg’s work: the relative and limited… more
Blossom, 2023
Aluminum, lacquered / Aluminium, lackiert
Pedro Cabrita Reis is taking part in the sculpture project Blickachsen 2023 in the Kurpark and Schlosspark Bad Homburg.
Every two years from May to October, "Blickachsen" shows contemporary large-scale sculptures and installations by international artists in the historic parks in the centre of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe as well as in Frankfurt/Main and other locations in the Rhine-Main region. The title of this unique exhibition… more
Central Tejo, 2018
Installation view
Aluminium, LED, electric cables
The EDP Foundation has invited the artist Pedro Cabrita Reis to design a monumental artwork for display in the historical place Central Tejo, in Lisbon. A key figure on the Portuguese art scene, Pedro Cabrita Reis has gained worldwide recognition. In particular, he was featured in documenta 9 (Kassel, 1992) and he represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale in 2003. His artworks — sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs — are found in the… more
Trashstone 689, 2017
Production waste in aluminium
The sculpture Trashstone 689 by artist Wilhelm Mundt is installed permanently along the PURPLE PATH in Freiberg, Germany.
A silver lump lies erratically on Freiberg's Lomonossowplatz like a glacial relic. The sculptor Wilhelm Mundt, who was born in Grevenbroich in 1959, works in Rommerskirchen and teaches at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, has placed one of his iconic sculptures from the Trashstone series in the silver city. The… more
Willow, 2014, Jardin de Tuileries, Paris
Bronze
The Buchmann Galerie is pleased to present the large-scale bronze sculpture Willow by Tony Cragg in the Jardin des Tuileries as part of the Paris+ par Art Basel’s Public Program.
The presentation is part of the exhibition La Cinquième Saison, curated by Annabelle Ténèze, director of the Musée du Louvre-Lens, and conceived in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre. The exhibition explores the garden as a space of mineral, aquatic and vegetal… more